PGY-3
Rotation Schedule
Morning rotations:
Day Hospital Program (VA)
Day Hospital is an intensive outpatient program at the VA; patients are typically enrolled for 4-6 weeks. Residents are assigned as the primary clinician for up to 2 patients at a time. Involvement includes intensive daily psychotherapy, medication management, and assistance with connection to outpatient services. Residents also co-lead group therapy.
Mental Health Intensive Case Management (VA)
MHICM is an assertive community treatment program run through the VA, which serves patients with severe psychotic disorders and the chronically mentally ill. Residents go out into the field with MHICM staff for home visits.
Women's Mental Health
Residents rotate at ERC Pathlight in downtown Chicago, completing new intakes or followups for patients in the residential/PHP eating disorders programs, and building skills with management of mood and anxiety disorders in women.
Addictions (VA)
Split between the Drug Dependency Treatment Center (DDTC), Alternative Treatment Program (ATP), and Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Program (SARRTP). DDTC supervises medication-assisted treatment for veterans with substance use disorders; residents will become familiar with initiating and managing methadone and suboxone in particular. ATP is an intensive outpatient program which provides individual and group therapies and medication management for veterans. SARRTP is a 6-week residential program with explicit focus on substance use disorders.
Elective
Residents may arrange any available elective; please see the PGY4 page for a partial list of options.
Neuropsychology (UIC)
Residents gain unique exposure to neuropsychological evaluation (both inpatient and outpatient), and participate in weekly didactics with the neuropsychology trainees.
Geriatric Psychiatry (VA)
Residents build skills including evaluation/management of dementia and management of general psychiatric conditions in the geriatric population.
Evaluation Clinic (UIC)
Residents see new patients for initial psychiatric evaluations and some follow-ups. During this time, residents will hone their skills in interviewing, developing initial treatment plans, and determining when patients are appropriate for continued care with psychiatry vs. referral back to primary care for future management.
Night Float (UIC or VA) - 1 week
Afternoons:
Continuity clinic: Residents generally spend two half days per week in continuity clinics at UIC. Residents see patients in one of the four "core" clinics for two years - either psychosis, women's mental health, neuropsychiatry, or mood/anxiety. They may also spend one year rotating in recovery/substance abuse clinic, bipolar clinic, gender and sexuality clinic, or women's resiliency clinic. Each clinic has dedicated group supervision time for reviewing complex cases, journal articles, or directed readings.
Psychotherapy:
Psychodynamic Therapy: Residents see patients for dynamic therapy 2 hours/week, plus 1 hour/week of supervision. One hour per week of group therapy can also count towards this requirement.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Residents see patients for 2 hours/week, plus 1 hour/week of supervision
Child psychiatry: Residents may complete a longitudinal child experience with a combination of medication management and child therapy.
Call Duties:
UIC residents cover evening/weekend call and night float at both the university hospital and Jesse Brown VA.
Night Float: 8 PM - 8 AM, Sunday - Thursday
Short calls: 4:30 PM - 8 PM Monday - Thursday
Friday calls: 4:30 PM Friday until 8 AM Saturday; PGY2 and 3 only
Weekend calls: Saturday 8 AM - 8 PM, Saturday 8 PM - Sunday 8 AM, and Sunday 8 AM-8PM
- 1 week of night float
- One 24-hour holiday call
- Average of 10 short calls + 2 Friday calls + 6 weekend calls over the whole year
- Total hours about 160/year